C. Organized criminal groups

The nature of organized criminal groups

(b) Preventive measures aimed at disbanding organized criminal groups and terrorist groups

Project Passage Terrorism affiliated organized criminal groups and activities

(ii) Links, including international links, with other organized criminal groups

(iii) Offences that organized criminal groups have committed or may commit

There are also cases in which terrorist groups act as suppliers for organized criminal groups.

Noting the transnational nature of organized crime and the tendency of organized criminal groups and terrorist groups to expand their illegal operations,

Trafficking in human organs thus provides lucrative openings for organized criminal groups.

Terrorist organizations are notoriously harder to infiltrate than traditional organized criminal groups.

(i) The identity, nature, composition, structure, location or activities of organized criminal groups

Organized criminal groups have been responsible for an upsurge in cases of kidnapping.

This method of committing economic crime has been used by organized criminal groups to insulate individuals from criminal prosecution.

Migrant smuggling has become a global business, generating huge profits for organized criminal groups.

Many organized criminal groups have diversified their activities and new groups have emerged in several new and specialized sectors.

The fact that terrorist groups and organized criminal groups interact has meant that each group learns from the other.

The Organized Crime Convention applies specifically to cases where economic or financial crimes have been perpetrated by organized criminal groups.

Such weapons may end up in the hands of groups involved in armed conflicts as well as organized criminal groups and terrorist groups.

Both organized criminal groups and terrorist groups are learning from past mistakes while probing recent defences erected by targeted nations.

There have also been important shifts in organizational structures and approaches of organized criminal groups.

Money laundering provides criminals and organized criminal groups with both cash flow and investment capital.

It is likely too that organized criminal groups engaged in migrant smuggling will use increasingly more sophisticated approaches, underscoring the importance of understanding more clearly the nature and role of organized criminal groups in this area.

Organized criminal activities

(c) The prevention of the misuse of legal persons by organized criminal groups, in particular by

One prominent example of the involvement of organized criminal groups is the trade in illegal caviar.

In some cases, organized criminal activities are clearly part of the infrastructure of the terrorist groups.

Organized criminal groups therefore can be understood as being quasi Clausewitzian criminal activity is a continuation of business by other means, that is, by criminal means.

Alarmed at the threat posed by organized criminal groups, especially through the growing linkages between drug trafficking, organized crime, terrorism and money laundering,

(d) The prevention of the misuse of legal persons by organized criminal groups such measures could include

Organized criminal groups are also heavily involved in the illegal smuggling of migrants and trafficking in firearms.

Even when organized criminal groups, as such, were not fully involved, much of the trafficking was highly organized (E CN.15 2003 8, para.

a. Criminal activities of the organized criminal group

Estimates of the annual profits of organized criminal groups vary considerably from 3.5 billion to 10 billion annually.

The link between organized criminal groups and various forms of economic crime and corruption was also stressed. 3

The organized criminal groups, of which the Monitoring Group has identified two local and two transnational criminal groups, have existing infrastructure or clandestine pathways to move the arms from source to recipient.

This is likely to occur if and when members of organized criminal groups and members of terrorist groups establish close personal relationships with one another.

Even though terrorist groups are resorting increasingly to organized criminal activities, those activities are intended to promote their cause.

A number of speakers expressed their concern over the increasing rate of kidnapping, stressing that such actions were linked with organized criminal groups and terrorist groups.

A number of speakers expressed their concern over the increasing rate of kidnapping, stressing that such actions were linked with organized criminal groups and terrorist groups.

41, of the Code) covered all serious crimes involving organized criminal groups provided for article 5, paragraph 1 (a) (i).

Issue 3. Measures taken to counteract new trends in the use of technology by drug trafficking and organized criminal groups

Issue 2. Measures to counteract new trends in the use of technology by drug trafficking and related organized criminal groups

In theory, as terrorist groups and organized criminal groups cooperate, it should be helpful for Governments to combine the lessons learned from fighting each type of organization.

Azerbaijan stated that its domestic law required involvement of an organized criminal group for purposes of the offences established in accordance with article 5, paragraph 1 (a) (i), and covered all serious crimes involving organized criminal groups.

Alarmed at the serious and growing threat posed by organized criminal groups involved in drug trafficking, money laundering and various other forms of organized crime and their potential and, in some cases, actual links with terrorist groups,